An elected office holder, I mean. And now a Presidential candidate.
You can guess who I’m talking about.
There is, of course, every cognitive and economic as well as spiritual and aesthetic reason to promote the arts and arts education. It’s just that, once again, virtually the entire Democratic party capitulated–this time, to the GOP’s sting operation against the National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1990s. The Republicans have repeatedly tried to demonize anyone who breathes a word in support of art that is not corporate-backed popular entertainment.
Hillary has made some of the the right noises, and I compliment her on that, but Sanders is once again the most assertive of the Democratic bench.